Feminist Quotes - Page 25

• What the feminists want of me is something they haven't examined because it comes from religion. They want me to bear witness.

  Doris Lessing

  Want, Bears, Witness

  "Doris Lessing on Feminism, Communism and 'Space Fiction'" by Lesley Hazelton, archive.nytimes.com. July 25, 1982.

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• What I really can't stand about the feminist revolution is that it produced some of the smuggest, most unselfcritical people the world has ever seen. They are horrible.

  Doris Lessing

  People, World, Revolution

  "The great contrarian". Interview with Lisa Allardice, www.theguardian.com. January 20, 2007.

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• I prefer to call the most obnoxious feminists what they really are: feminazis. Tom Hazlett, a good friend who is an esteemed and highly regarded professor of economics at the University of California at Davis, coined the term to describe any female who is intolerant of any point of view that challenges militant feminism.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Good Friend, Views, California

  "The Way Things Ought to Be". Book by Rush Limbaugh, p. 193, 1992.

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• Militant feminists are pro-choice because it's their ultimate avenue of power over men. And believe me, to them it is a question of power. It is their attempt to impose their will on the rest of society, particularly on men.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Believe, Men, Choices

  "The Way Things Ought to Be" by Rush Limbaugh, Pocket Books, (p. 52), October 1992.

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• The failure of academic feminists to recognize difference as a crucial strength is a failure to reach beyond the first patriarchal lesson. In our world, divide and conquer must become define and empower.

  Audre Lorde

  Our World, Differences, Empowering

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.112, Crossing Press

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• When we create out of our experiences, as feminists of color, women of color, we have to develop those structures that will present and circulate our culture.

  Audre Lorde

  Color, Culture, Literature

  Audre Lorde, Joan Wylie Hall (2004). “Conversations with Audre Lorde”, p.130, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I am more feminist than feminists.

  Christian Louboutin

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• Madonna is a feminist and has been doing more for the cause than all the grumpy feminists, who are giving nothing back by being grumpy.

  Christian Louboutin

  Giving, Causes, Grumpy

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• I don't think that I would consider myself a feminist. I think that, I certainly believe in equal rights. I believe that women are just as capable, if not more so, in a lot of different dimensions. But I don't, I think, have sort of the militant drive and the sort of the chip on the shoulder that sometimes comes with that.

  Marissa Mayer

  Believe, Thinking, Rights

  "Makers: Women Who Make America". PBS/AOL documentary, www.businessinsider.com. February 26, 2013.

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• I think every woman in our culture is a feminist. They may refuse to articulate it, but if you were to take any woman back 40 years and say, 'Is this a world you want to live in?' They would say, 'No.'

  Helen Mirren

  Thinking, Years, Culture

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• I am what would be called a 'mainstream feminist,' not a radical feminist.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Would Be, Mainstream, Radical

  CNN's Book Chat, www.cnn.com.

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• Mark Twain was very unhappy with himself for various reasons. He was very unhappy with America of this time. He thought it was terrible we had no anti-lynching laws, and he was also a feminist, and he was also very concerned with anti-Semitism. He was a good man, but he was hard on himself.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Men, Lynching, Law

  "Oates Details Writers' Last Days in 'Wild Nights'". Interview with Liane Hansen, www.npr.org. April 27, 2008.

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• To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.

  Barack Obama

  Friends, Leather Jackets, Rocks

  Barack Obama (2007). “Dreams From My Father”, p.100, Canongate Books

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• Socialists find me too far left; Trotskyites not far enough; ecologists say I am too happy eating foie gras, defending nuclear energy and GM plants; feminists find I am not enough of a woman; anarchists a petit-bourgeois who has sold out because I believe in universal suffrage.

  Michel Onfray

  Believe, Energy, Nuclear

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• Popular culture - above all rock 'n' roll, with its African-American R & B roots - did far more to radicalize us than did any feminist leader.

  Camille Paglia

  Roots, Rocks, Leader

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• Young feminists have been sold a bill of goods about American feminism. The enormous changes in women over the past 40 years are constantly and falsely attributed to the organized women's movement of the late 1960s and '70s.

  Camille Paglia

  Past, Years, Feminism

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• I am a feminist, and I define myself: Be yourself, because if you can get away with it, that is the ultimate feminist act.

  Liz Phair

  Being Yourself, Get Away, Ultimate

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A movie about a weak, vulnerable woman can be feminist if it shows a real person that we can empathize with.

  Natalie Portman

  Real, Vulnerable, Weak

  "Natalie Portman: Science's unlikely heroine?" by Sheena McKenzie, www.cnn.com. November 01, 2013.

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• Whatever feminists may say about their only advocating choices, everyone knows the truth: Feminism regards work outside the home as more elevating, honorable, and personally productive than full-time mothering and making a home.

  Dennis Prager

  Home, Choices, Feminism

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• Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution.

  Bertrand Russell

  Marriage, Sex, Prostitution

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Marriage and Morals”, p.94, Routledge

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• I don't consider myself as a feminist but more a humanist.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Humanist

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• I am absolutely not a feminist, I am against stupidity, and if it comes from males or females, it doesn't change anything. If it means that women and men, they are equal, then OK, certainly I am a feminist.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Mean, Men, Stupidity

  Interview with Arash Ghadishah, abcnews.go.com. February 22, 2008.

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• I was in college in the '60s, and the whole feminist movement had swept me up.

  Laura Schlessinger

  College, Movement, Whole

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• I don't necessarily think of myself as a feminist, but I'm a whole person.

  Jill Scott

  Thinking, Persons, Whole

  "Jill Scott’s Fourth Act". Interview with Alex Chapman, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 21, 2011.

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• 'Feminist comedy,' practically an oxymoron, had a couple of good years after WWII. Chalk it up to the forced female autonomy that occurred during wartime, when Rosie the Riveter went to work in the factories, constructing the Allies' war machines while taking charge of the finances, the home, and the children.

  Grace Slick

  Children, Couple, War

  Grace Slick, Andrea Cagan (2008). “Somebody to Love?: A Rock-and-Roll Memoir”, p.11, Hachette UK

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